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Bestsellers
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- De: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrado por: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....
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He’s correct but he misrepresented the data
- De Andrea Allen en 02-09-21
De: Rutger Bregman, y otros
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- De: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....
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Interesting, but material is covered in better book.
- De Erlend en 04-06-16
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- De: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrado por: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....
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He’s correct but he misrepresented the data
- De Andrea Allen en 02-09-21
De: Rutger Bregman, y otros
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- De: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....
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Interesting, but material is covered in better book.
- De Erlend en 04-06-16
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- De: Arthur Firstenberg
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....
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Crackpot
- De Peter Nee en 08-29-21
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Longitude
- De: Dava Sobel
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....
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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- De Boots en 01-19-13
De: Dava Sobel
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When Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- De: Joshua D. Mezrich
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....
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Memoir and history, beautifully written
- De Bonny en 01-22-19
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate....
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A Heralding Voice...
- De Douglas en 07-22-14
De: Edward O. Wilson
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
De: James Gleick
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Rethinking Diabetes
- What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
- De: Gary Taubes
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat....
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Narrater is horrible. Monotonous tone.
- De Reader en 01-06-24
De: Gary Taubes
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- De: Nicola Twilley
- Narrado por: Nicola Twilley
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse....
De: Nicola Twilley
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- De: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....
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Good book, very odd narration
- De Ben Wiener en 04-10-22
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
- How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
- De: Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Cara Santa Maria - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Steven Novella
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction"....
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Condescending & ridiculing to those who differ
- De Bookworm en 04-15-19
De: Steven Novella, y otros
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Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- De: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes listeners on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played....
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A Long Poem to the Moon
- De Karl Frank en 05-08-24
De: Rebecca Boyle
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Vital Organs
- De: Suzie Edge
- Narrado por: Suzie Edge
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Interesting, Educational, and Occasionally Funny
- De Tricia A. Hamblin en 01-08-24
De: Suzie Edge
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Eric Singer
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....
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Ambitious
- De Roy en 12-08-10
De: Steven Johnson
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The Icepick Surgeon
- Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....
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FANTASTIC! & What’s up with all these naysayers (negative reviewers)?!
- De H. Zophie Leslea en 08-19-21
De: Sam Kean
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Complexity
- The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- De: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrado por: Mikael Naramore
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....
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You won't learn anything you didn't know
- De Dennis E. Alwine en 12-26-20
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- De Betsy Powel en 12-19-11
De: Charles C. Mann
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- De: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- De Adrian en 05-06-19
De: John Drury Clark, y otros
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Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- De: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....
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Can’t listen to the reader
- De Doug Clyde en 07-21-22
De: Lydia Kang MD, y otros
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Richard Rhodes
- Duración: 6 h
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The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....
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Abridged??
- De Delano en 04-17-13
De: Richard Rhodes
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Silk
- A World History
- De: Aarathi Prasad
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.
De: Aarathi Prasad
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
- How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: Hugh Kermode
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....
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Great story and narration, but lacks rigor...
- De James S. en 05-31-19
De: Graham Farmelo
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- De: Adam Becker
- Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe....
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Good, "light" "read"... potential caveat below...
- De James S. en 03-31-18
De: Adam Becker
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- De Terry A. Gray en 10-21-11
De: Thomas Hager
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company....
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Excellent. Would make a good movie.
- De Andrew Dodson en 03-04-21
De: Eric Berger